iStore Accelerator : Speed up iStore site migration

Many of you have implemented Oracle iStore or planning to do so as their next big project. After more than 50 implementations of Oracle iStore in the past few years, iBizSoft team realized a big need out there to improve the migration time for Oracle iStore sites from a development server to a product server, which is a very manual time consuming process (typically 2-3 days) with chances of manual errors.

With this extended Oracle iStore accelerator, the time required to migrate is reduced to less than 30 mins and more over its free of manual errors.  Here’s a snapshot of how this accelerator works for any Oracle iStore implementation on R11i or R12.X.

Email us at support@ibizsoftinc.com for a link to a demo.

Exporting Catalog

Step 1:

Login as an iStore Administrator

Step 2:

Navigate  iStore Administrator –> iStore Merchant –> Migration (Its a custom menu created by iBizSoft team)

Under this we have 2 subtabs(functions) ”Minisite Migration” and ”Catalog Migration”. On loading these pages admin can easily do Import/Export of the Catalog/Minisite details to a given format on a specified location with a simple button click.

Step 3:

Select the function ”Catalog Migration” under the custom menu “Migration” created by iBizSoft team.

Step 4:

Catalog Migration: Home Page

Step 5:

Need to fill the File format, Catalog Name and Output file path on this page before clicking the Export button

5.1) We have provided options to migrate the catalog information in a variety of file formats like XML, Text and CSV. Select output file format from the selection box (XML/Text or CSV).

5.2) Fill the catalog name manually or do a easy search by clicking the “Search Button” on the right side. This popup search window have all the catalogs listed including Root section and all its sub sections as shown in the below screen.

5.3) Enter the output XML file location, It will create the output file on this specified location.

Step 6:

Click on the “Export” button to create the file in the XML format in the specified location.

Note the message “Catalog structure has been exported to /usr/tmp/VComputers.xml successfully”

Importing Catalog

To Import the Catalog into another server, save the exported XML file to the new server and provide the full XML file path in the textbox provided. Click on “Import” button.

Catalog has been imported to the new server